Burundi Shining Star University thrives:

To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being.

To cultivate a transformative community university committed to

• attracting and retaining diverse, world-class talent;
• creating a collaborative environment open to the free exchange of ideas, where research, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship can flourish; and
• ensuring individuals can achieve their full potential.

To impact society in a transformative way — regionally, nationally, and globally — by engaging with partners outside the traditional borders of the university campus.

In order to fulfill its mission, the university must:

1. Offer broad and balanced academic programs that are mutually reinforcing and emphasize high quality and creative instruction at the undergraduate, graduate, professional and postgraduate levels.
2. Generate new knowledge through a broad array of scholarly, research and creative endeavors, which provide a foundation for dealing with the immediate and long-range needs of society.
3. Achieve leadership in each discipline, strengthen interdisciplinary studies, and pioneer new fields of learning.
4. Serve society through coordinated nationwide outreach programs that meet continuing educational needs.
5. Strengthen cultural understanding through opportunities to study languages, cultures, the arts and the implications of social, political, economic and technological change and through encouragement of study, research and service off campus and abroad.
6. Maintain a level of excellence and standards in all programs that will give them nationwide, and international significance.
7. Embody, through its policies and programs, respect for, and commitment to, the ideals of a pluralistic, open and democratic society.